General Report SASE2014

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2 General Report SASE2014 The fifth edition of the Argentine Symposium on Embedded Systems, SASE2014, was held with great success from August 13th to August 15th, 2014 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on the premises of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Buenos Aires. The event was organized by ACSE, the Civil Association for the Research, Development and Advancement of Electronic Embedded Systems, and was sponsored by 35 companies, 24 institutions and 52 universities, which are listed in Annex I. A total of 2,000 people from different countries attended the SASE2014, according to the distribution presented in Figure 1. About 97% of attendees came from Argentina, while the remaining 3% was distributed among Mexico, Uruguay, Peru, Colombia, Brazil and other countries in the region. Figure 3 shows the age distribution of those attending the SASE2014. Some significant data are as follows 12% of participants less than 20 years old. 64% of participants between 20 and % of participants between 30 and 50. 5% of the participants over 50. It was observed that most of the participants came from academia, but the fraction of participants from industry is significant, as illustrated in Fig CABA: GBA: Fig. 1. Geographic origin of attendees to SASE2014.

3 Fig. 2. Age distribution of attendees to SASE2014. Fig. 3. Main occupation of attendees to SASE2014. During SASE tutorials were held, 90 minutes each, organized in 15 subject areas (Fig. 4 y 5): Subject Number of tutorials Enrolled participants (average) Introduction to Embedded Systems Embedded Linux Bioengineering Embedded Software Embedded Systems Manufacturing FPGAs & HDLs 7 96 Embedded Systems for Industrial Applications Wireless Communications CASE Protocols and Communications DSP - Digital Signal Processing Robotics and Artificial Inteligence Certification of Embedded Systems RTOS - Real Time Op. Systems 3 86 ASICs - App. Specific Integrated Circuits 3 52 Fig. 4. Distribution of tutorials by subject area SASE2014.

4 Fig. 5. Tutorials taking place during SASE2014 A Program for Travel and Accommodation Grants was also organized, aimed primarily at university students, although it also included faculty members from all over the country. ACSE awarded 1130 accommodation grants totaling around $ 400,000 (Argentine pesos), financing half of this amount with contributions from the Secretary of University Policies of the Ministry of Education, and the other half by contributions from sponsoring companies (Figure 6). Travel grants were also awarded, financed mainly by the universities themselves, who arranged for bus routes for their students and teachers (Fig. 6), and in smaller part by those attending the event, who also paid part of costs. Fig. 6. SASE2014 Program for Travel and Accommodation Grant

5 During SASE2014 there were 19 hand-on workshops, with a total of 462 seats, on the subject areas of Introduction to Embedded Systems, Embedded Software, FPGA and HDLs, Protocols and Communications, Embedded System for Industry, etc. (Fig. 7). Fig. 7. Hands-on workshops held during SASE2013. In the scientific paper section of SASE, the Argentine Congress on Embedded Systems, CASE2014, 32 works were accepted in the categories of (1) regular papers, (2) technology forum, and (3) posters. Participation at CASE2014 was totally free, and the selection was carried out using a peer review process and the articles were published in two books (Fig. 8), both with registered ISBN. In the case of the regular papers, they were included in the IEEE Xplore and several international databases (A&I, Abstracting and Indexing). All the accepted articles were presented during CASE2014 Poster Sessions, and the authors of distinguished works from the categories regular papers and technology forum were invited to perform an oral presentation as part of the SASE2014 tutorials. Fig. 8. Book covers of the Technology Forum and Posters Projects Book (left) and the Regular Papers book (right)

6 A University Equipment Program was implemented, by which more than 100 development kits and purchase orders for over $ (Argentine Pesos) were assigned to 31 universities: Fig. 8. Distribution of the resources

7 In the final instance of the Student Project Contest in SASE2014 were presented 12 projects: - Category A: 8 final university graduation projects. - Category B: 4 university class projects. And the most outstanding projects received awards for a total of $ (Fig. 9). Cat. Distinction University A 1st Prize UNQ, Universidad Nacional de ($5.500) Quilmes, Prov. Buenos Aires 2nd Prize UR, Universidad de la República, ($2.500) Uruguay B 1st Prize ($4.000) 2nd Prize ($2.000) Mention UNICEN, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Prov. Buenos Aires UTN-FRLR, Universidad Tecnológica Naciona, Facultad Regional La Rioja, Prov. La Rioja. UNSJ, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Prov. San Juan. Project Diseño de software y hardware de un PLC y su entorno de programación, E. N. Pernía. Plagavisión: Desarrollo de un prototipo de detección temprana de plagas en WSN con capacidades visuales, M. Gonzalez, J. Schandy, N. Wainstein. Aceleración por hardware para procesamiento de imágenes sobre Raspberry Pi, A. Espinosa, M. A. Menchón Desarrollo de Interfaz Hombre Maquina para el Control de un Filtro Regulador Lubricador Utilizando Linux Embebido, Y. E. Zimmermann, C. N. Oviedo Codigoni Desarrollo en VHDL de un sistema de impresión de imágenes obtenidas de una tarjeta SD, E. A. Granero, S. E. Checcarelli. Fig. 9. SASE 2014 Student Project Contest winners list. The Sponsors Hall involved more than 300 m2 of facilities where, during three days, 17 companies and institutions presented their products and services to a very interested audience. Fig. 10. Sponsors Hall The Plenary Session, held on Friday, was the closing of the event. It included a talk about Proyecto CIAA and the distribution of the elements of SASE2014 Equipment Program (Fig. 11). Fig. 11. Talk about Proyecto CIAA (left) and distribution of the SASE 2014 Equipment Program (right) The sixth edition of the Argentine Symposium of Embedded Systems, SASE2015, will be held between August 12th and 14th in Buenos Aires, in the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Engineering facilities.

8 Appendix I: SASE2014 Sponsors

9 Appendix I: SASE2014 Sponsors